Review: Another Look at Donald Trump’s Scottish Dealings

Before he became a presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump began a lengthy campaign of chicken with the residents of Balmedie, Scotland, near Aberdeen, where his plans to build a golf resort went forward after a contentious approval process.

The documentary filmmaker Anthony Baxter captured the fallout in “You’ve Been Trumped” (2012), which portrayed Mr. Trump as a callous despoiler of the environment with no respect for his neighbors. Some of them, we learn in “You’ve Been Trumped Too,” have hung Mexican flags in protest — a reference to Mr. Trump’s promise to build a border wall.

This timely if ragged bookend finds Michael Forbes, and his mother, Molly, still without reliable running water after five years, because of pipe damage that, as Donald Trump Jr. and other members of the Trump Organization acknowledge in the film, resulted from the construction. The movie also argues that the resort has created only a fraction of the promised jobs.

The big shock is that the elder Mr. Trump met with Mr. Baxter in March 2013, a gesture that Mr. Trump attributes to the showing of “You’ve Been Trumped” on the BBC and elsewhere. (“You’ve become a much more important person in terms of doing an interview,” he tells the filmmaker.) Given the scant screen time devoted to the encounter, Mr. Baxter doesn’t seem to have gotten much from the interview, though he undercuts himself by keeping excerpts from it so brief.

As a filmmaker, Mr. Baxter often tends toward needless force-feeding. He juxtaposes Ms. Forbes’s reminiscence of how as a young woman she used to keep cows “bonnie” (pretty) with a photo of Mr. Trump Jr. holding the severed tail of an elephant, killed in a hunting expedition. In a Michael Moore-style stunt, Mr. Baxter stands in front of the White House to tell passers-by about the family’s lack of running water.

His most effective gambit is to accompany Mr. Forbes and his wife, Sheila, to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland; Mr. Forbes says that the political divide in America reminds him of the initial debate over the golf project. This time, the “you” in the title is the United States.